Maria Ines Valdívia
E-mail: mariainesvaldivia2022@gmail.com
Visiting professor in the Graduate History Program at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2023). She is a professor at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Peru, where she teaches courses on the History of Political Ideas and Comparative History. She holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in History from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Intellectual History at the Quilmes University in Argentina. From 2005 to 2012, she served as the coordinator of the School of History at the Faculty of Humanities at the National University Federico Villarreal. Her academic work was recognized with the National Research Award on the University Book in 2009 for her thesis titled “Masonería y Librepensamiento en el Perú a fines del siglo XIX” (Asamblea Nacional de Rectores). She has also been a professor at the National University Federico Villarreal, National University Mayor de San Marcos, and University of Sciences and Humanities. Her current research focuses on the analysis of the relationship between women and fascism in Peru during the 1930s. Additionally, she is working on a research project about the biographies of women intellectuals, including figures such as Zoila Aurora Cáceres Moreno (1877-1958), Dora Mayer (1868-1959), and Judith Prieto de Zegarra, women who have connections to the political context of Peru in the first and second half of the 20th century.
Main Publications
- El liberalismo Social en el Perú: Masones, bomberos y librepensadores en el Perú durante el siglo XIX (Premio Nacional de Investigación, Asamblea Nacional de Rectores), 2009.
- La Aviación Civil en el Perú. UAP, Lima-Perú, 2013. (com G. Gonzáles e F. Lévano)
- “La masonería durante el proceso de las independencias hispanoamericanas (1808-1898)”. En: Sociedad Ejércitos e Ideas. Codesido, L., Dawyd D. & Del Vasto, C. (eds.), Universidad de Buenos Aires, pp. 197-214, 2014.
- El Feminismo Católico en el Perú. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima-Perú, 2018.
- El feminismo católico en la obra de Zoila Aurora Cáceres. En: Historia de las Mujeres y de Género. Claudia Rosas (ed.) Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2019.